Sorry, but... since my parents insisted we watch LW back then, this is most likely why simple but original jingles are always playing in my head all the time.
 
When I was old enough to realize how silly the LWS was I stopped watching. Apparently too late tho.... please make it stop!

soens
Sorry, but... since my parents insisted we watch LW back then, this is most likely why simple but original jingles are always playing in my head all the time.
 
When I was old enough to realize how silly the LWS was I stopped watching. Apparently too late tho.... please make it stop!

It could be worse. You ever been to Disney's "Its A Small World" ride?

"When I was old enough to realize how silly the LWS was I stopped watching. Apparently too late tho.... please make it stop!"
Please spell out 'Lawrence Welk Show' because 'LWS' refers to 'Lawrence Welk Syndrome', which you seem to display in its most aggressive form. There is no cure, but there is hope....
 
"It could be worse. You ever been to Disney's "Its A Small World" ride?"
 
Good Gravy! Don't tell me you suffer from both LWS and IASWS! You should write a book while still capable: "Surviving Against All Odds". 

Team Green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI64g2nP6kI

Yep, "Flowers on the Wall". Her signature tune.

See the comments from Roy Rising here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/rec.audio.pro/oTaM3eutPak
"When I joined the show, most of the numbers were pre-recorded. Slowly, Mr. Welk recognized the vitality of live performance and liked my work. In my third season most numbers were live, pre-recording was reserved for a few specific performers, plus large "production numbers" that would be more difficult to capture live.
I mixed the Welk show for three seasons ~ '71-'73. During that time EV 666s were replaced by RE15s. The 635A was my hand mic of choice and there were Beyer M-160s on the booms."
 
 
For the entire run, musical numbers were divided fairly evenly between prerecorded lip- and finger-sync performances and those recorded live on film or tape. Generally, the big production numbers featuring dancing and singing performances were recorded earlier in the day or the day before, often at famous recording studios in and around nearby Hollywood, while the more intimate numbers were recorded live on tape or film.

"See the comments from Roy Rising here:..."
 
Thanks, Ham N Egz. Exactly the sort of info I am looking for.

"I've been meaning to get opinions.."
 
Well I thought that's what you wanted. I won't waste my time in the future with you.

Ken,
 
I think rbecker was being sincere giving information unless I missed something. Was a crazy era and sometimes takes a few decades to sort it all out objective when passions have died down and we can look back without anger. Comment not so much on the technical stuff.
 
Back in the 60's era of us hippies, drug addicts, LSD explorers, Lawrence Welk was a symbol of the clueless "establishment". Only one step up and more antiseptic than Merl Haggard when Merl did his Okie from Muscogee track.
 
Nobody hated Lawrence, but the underground considered him as an ignorant pawn that probably got stoned on wine, but never experienced the transcendental rush of a belly full of mushrooms. He could get forked up with the rest of the band on alcohol, but we were criminals getting high on our drugs of choice.
 
We condemned his washed out covers of pop songs. Either nowhere near the original hit or not covering the real hits. No acid rock to be had.
 
One Toke Over the Line rendition by the clean singers is an incredible screw up in the context of the time. If there had been internet then, this clip would have gone viral in celebration.
 
John
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

"I think rbecker was being sincere giving information unless I missed something. ..."
 
I am simply gathering information regarding Lawrence Welk. Be it an opinion or best guess or actual documentation from someone in-the-know, I accept and appreciate it all. I get curious about things that a lot of folks don't get curious about, and then go about finding the best answers I can. I have a notepad near my chair used to jot down things to research. The most recent? From a day or two ago: "Baseball: What is a 'Seeing Eye' hit?"
 
I took a jazz arranging course in my university days, and the instructor (whom I got along with very well, both of us being trombonists) chided me because my arrangement of "Who's Sorry Now" sounded "...Like Lawrence Welk...", to which I replied "Well, he has more money than either of us will ever have.", to which Jack said "You got me there...".
 
I may make a joke now and then - Lawrence Welk is a tempting target - but I have nothing but respect for L.W. and anybody who makes it in the music industry, an accomplishment I cannot claim for myself. I need to admit that I still watch L.W. from time-to-time on public TV, mostly for the Zeitgeist. A different time for many of us.
 
And thank you all who reply to my questions.

Took me a long time to realize in retrospect the multi level talent and genius of the guy.  What it required to put it together and keep it together for as long as he did. We always saw him as the show's band leader, but evidently a gifted musician in his own right.